It's good news that journalists at the New York Times will no longer participate in the bloated and compromised White House Correspondents Association dinner. Bravo. I await with some curiosity the explanation for what changed in their thinking. So far, there's been nothing.
One possibility: the editors will evade the intricate cultural politics of the matter.
And settle instead on the dinner's transformation into a celebrity event, where Huff Post's Laurie David (guest of CNN) and singer Sheryl Crow...
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